I. – Subject to the exceptions provided for in article R. 2213-1-4, the doctor, student or practitioner who recorded the death shall, as soon as possible, draw up a certificate on an electronic medium in compliance with the provisions of article L. 1110-4-1 of the Public Health Code and transmit the sections of this certificate without delay under the conditions set out in II, III and IV.
II. – The administrative section of the death certificate is drawn up electronically. It is sent by secure electronic means to the town hall of the place of death, to the agency, company or association authorised under the conditions defined in article L. 2223-23, responsible for providing the funeral and, if the body is transported, to the town hall of the place where the body is deposited and to the funeral home manager.
III. – The data on the medical section of the death certificate are transmitted by the doctor, student or practitioner, after encryption, to the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale or to the body appointed by this institute to manage the system for collecting and transmitting the certificates entered, under the conditions defined by this institute and designed to guarantee the security, confidentiality and integrity of these data.
IV. – The death certificate may only be transmitted if the administrative section and the medical section have been completed in full.
During the ninety-six hours following transmission of the death certificate, the doctor, student or practitioner may modify the information on the medical section. Any change during this period will result in a new transmission to the receiving organisation.
V. – On receipt of the administrative section, the civil registrar at the town hall sends a bulletin by post or electronically to the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques under the conditions defined by the amended decree no. 82-103 of 22 January 1982 relating to the national register for the identification of natural persons.